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- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
things around here. And say that worker is on a team and they’re the glue on that team. Another team member has been thinking about quitting, too. We know from psychological research that person will feel psychological permission to quit... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
becoming more competitive and moving up. "We can't expect government to be on the front line," he stated. "We have to step up and demonstrate the power of the market system." Businesspeople should be thinking about the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
promotes education on racial justice and the Black experience by sharing books and conversations on topics of race, identity, systemic racism, and antiracism. Kate Handley (MBA 2021), Uptrust: Uptrust is building software that helps... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
implementation. Systems need to be selected, workflows altered, and the inevitable kinks ironed out. Change is hard. Yet, in my experience, after an individual or organization undergoes the transition from paper to digital, few would ever... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
what we have done thus far and think about, ‘How do you make this a truly transformative experience if we need to continue with online learning in the fall?’” says Kim, who teaches the second-year MBA course Transforming Education through... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
Likewise, in business, sometimes the best solution involves keeping certain complex pieces that go into a product design invisible. That's why Bang & Olufsen removed equalizer controls from some of its audio equipment in favor of a View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
in IT systems and lighting-systems R&D. Asked how important she thinks it is for America to have a solid, competitive manufacturing base, Brownell says, “U.S. manufacturing leadership is the reason for our... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
first clarify, my work does not assess the success or failure of the socialization model described in Manufacturing Morals. I consider myself a process researcher, namely a scholar examining the ways in which human systems operate to... View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
Brady Act, plus a 6 percent reduction in gun suicides. When the permanent provisions of the Brady Act took effect on Nov. 30, 1998, and an instant background check system was introduced, many states decided to discard their waiting... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size and importance, we had ignored this sector almost entirely in our curriculum. Q: Was HBS alone in not offering a... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
Summing Up Where Is the Leadership Necessary to Regenerate the "Industrial Commons" In their book Producing Prosperity, Gary Pisano and Willy Shih pointed to the lack of long-term thinking and investment as well as education... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
"I think Friedman will cast the longer shadow . . . the expansion of markets has speeded up the process of globalization . . . the corporate power of multinationals has not been as dominant as Galbraith had envisioned." In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
be poor, unappreciated, frustrated.’ He painted a very unappealing picture, but it didn’t add up. Mrs. Gbayisomore helped me to learn things that made me smart in school. I knew I wanted to fix the system someday. I didn’t know whose job... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I definitely don’t think that virtual will ever cannibalize the real thing. I genuinely don’t see that happening. That’s some people’s fear. But I do View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
RedSeal, and I did 15 cyber deals. Not a one of them ever came in and gave me a score! How’d you build it? Do you think it’s good? How do you know it’s good? What are you comparing it to? So we’ve created this concept called a digital... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Clean Slate
says. To get there, Massport is reducing the carbons tied to the operation of its airports, container ship and cruise terminals, and all related equipment and vehicles. Logan’s central heating system represents the biggest opportunity:... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
receive the new share for several months, at which point he can sell it. This system is the result of ownership being tracked on paper rather than electronically—it takes time to print out new share certificates. Because investors do not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
director, and emeritus professor at Swarthmore College, with more than thirty years of experience in the theater. Together, they developed the “artful making” concept to encourage managers in today’s knowledge–based, project–focused businesses to expand their View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
Patients are not actually the customers in the United States health care system, a fact largely to blame for the dearth of communication and data sharing between providers, according to experts at a recent Harvard Business School conference. On the upside, a lot of... View Details
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Security & Privacy | Information Technology
benefit of the University and for the benefit of you and your loved ones. Apply Updates to Your Devices and Apps Cyberattacks exploit vulnerabilities in devices or apps to install malicious code and enable unauthorized access to systems... View Details